2022 LHSAA
State Wrestling Championships February 11th-12th 2022 Raising Cane's River Center Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
Guillory adds one more Bearcat title for emphasis |
LHSAA State Wrestling Tournament |
Division III, 285 Pounds |
March 153rd, 2022 | Written by: CAT |
Seeding Synopsis | Early Championship Rounds | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Consolation Rounds | 3rd and 5th | Finals |
* Records include all wins but only losses to Louisiana wrestlers. Forfeits and defaults are not counted.
In at least nine articles
over four years, I thought I was correcting an error that went unnoticed by the
Basile coaching staff, Basile team members, TrackWrestling, other schools’
coaches, his friends and his family, when I wrote “Anthony” whenever I saw “Anphrony.”
Please find my photograph in the
Oxford English Dictionary under
“arrogance.”
(Actually, the photo
was there well before 2018.)
This
season someone finally showed me the error of my ways.
In 2022 Basile senior
Anphrony Guillory entered his fifth LHSAA State Wrestling Championships
tournament. In 2018 he had the pleasure of a first-round match against Evangel’s
top-seeded Datremecious White, the runner-up that season but afterward a two-time
state champion.
His first
consolation round match was against Church Point’s Tony Gibson, a 2020
runner-up.
Gibson would be a
recurring motif in Guillory’s state championships chronicles.
He would meet the Church Point wrestler four times, and lose four times,
from 2018-2020.
Another motif would
be John Drake of John Curtis.
In
2019 Guillory ascended to the consolation finals (vs. Gibson, of course) via a
medical forfeit from Drake.
Drake
did not forget that.
In 2020 Drake
kept Guillory from reaching the medal rounds, and in 2021 Drake, on his way to a
state championship, defeated the fifth-seeded Guillory in the semifinals, after
Guillory defeated the fourth-seed.
After
four years of state championship competition, Guillory had a fourth and a
fifth-place medal.
He had a record
of 3-8 in actual matches, with two forfeits.
Four of those losses were to Gibson.
The other three, to White and Drake, at least came from future state
champions.
What would
2022 have in store for the Bearcat senior?
Well, it had a spot as the
#1 seed to start.
He had defeated #2
Nicholas Dalfares of Curtis and #5 Ethyn Vigneaux of Kaplan (D3 4th) at the Brusly
Invitational.
Dalfares had defeated
Erath’s Ryan Fobbs, and nobody knew anything about #3 Dalfares Taylor of Lake
Charles College Prep, aside from that the senior was 7-0 and had a win over
Vigneaux.
Erath’s Ryan Fobbs was
seeded fourth, as he and Vigneaux split during the season, which pushed Taylor
to #3.
Guillory placed second at
the Jacob McMillan and the Trey Culotta, at which he defeated Division I state
entrants Chaney Phillips of Brother Martin, Tayvon Patterson of Airline (4th
in DI) and Division III’s Tim Donelon of De la Salle.
Then he won the Brusly Invitational, placed third at the Louisiana
Classic (losing to Jesuit’s Spencer Lanosga) but defeating Rayne's Tre`Von
Williams.
Williams returned the favor in the Ken Cole consolation finals, where
Guillory was also sent to the consolation rounds by Lanosga.
He then won the Lafayette Metro championship.
During the season he defeated Chalmette's Bryant Breska (D1 3rd) and
Catholic's David Russell (D1 5th), as well as Shaw's Raymond Howard
(D2 2nd).
Dalfares was 9-4 entering
the tournament and had a second-place finish at the Brusly Invitational.
But he had the win over Fobbs, and that earned him a #2 seed.
Plus, six of those wins, and none of his losses aside from the one to
Guillory, were against Division III competition.
Quarterfinals
In their tie-breaking match, Vigneaux prevailed against Fobbs 3-2 TB-1. The hitherto little-known entity called Taylor defeated a fellow senior from Bossier in 0:32 in his first match, and then spent 5:17 to pin a pesky eighth-grader from Evangel, Christian Speight.
(1) Anphrony Guillory (BAS) pinned Ben So (HAY)in 1:39 |
(5) Ethyn Vigneayx (KAP) defeated (4) Ryan Fobbs (ERT) 3-2 TB-1 |
(3) Darnell Taylor (LCCP) pinned (6) Christian Speight (EVA) in 5:17 |
(2) Nicholas Dalfares (JC) pinned (7) Keigan Fleming (BRU) in 5:42 |
Guillory finally made it to a state finals match after a hard 6-1 win over Vigneaux.
Taylor went back to his basics, which meant an early fall, over #2 Dalfares to advance to the finals.
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(1) Anphrony Guillory (BAS) defeated (5) Ethyn Vigneaux (KAP) 6-1 | |||||||||
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(3) Darnell Taylor (LCCP) pinned (2) Nicholas Dalfares (JC) in 0:48 |
Championship Consolation Rounds
Dalfares and Vigneaux put
on a show, if one wants to call a 1-1 tie after regulation a show.
But it meant a Sudden Victory round, if one wants to call it “Sudden,” as
Dalfares scored a match-winning takedown with six seconds remaining before
a tie-breaker period would have started.
A match won with only six seconds remaining in a Sudden Victory round, no
matter what preceded it, is dramatic.
The Evangel middle-school
entrant did well to place as he was seeded, sixth.
After taking Taylor into the third round in the quarterfinals, he defeated a junior and a
senior before falling to Vigneaux in the CSFs and then Fobbs in the match for
fifth.
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(2) Nicholas Dalfares (JC) defeated (5) Ethyn Vigneaux (KAP) 3-1 SV to place 3rd | ||||||||
(4) Ryan Fobbs (ERT) pinned (6) Christian Speight (EVA) in 1:46 to place 5th |
The seniors put on a very
entertaining finals match.
Taylor
scored first with an escape in the second period, but Guillory rebounded in the
third period with an escape and a takedown in the first minute.
Taylor escaped with 50 seconds remaining and came awfully close to a
takedown at the end. The attempt was close enough
for the officials to meet for a couple of minutes to discuss it before
determining Taylor did not gain control.
After five years, Guillory had his title.
(1) Anphrony Guillory (BAS) defeated (3) Darnell Taylor (LCCP) 3-2 | ||||||||||||
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